
Defensive channeling
balls start on the yellow cone. Split players between the yellow cones and a line by the red cones. player on yellow cones passes to player in the red square, the player on the yellow cone leads out to the left and receives the ball back. They then run round the blue cones and shoot at keeper. The player in the red box as soon as the pass is played back to the player will the push the attacker out of the D round the blue cones.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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